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Haotian Luo, Weijun Pan, Yidi Wang and Yuming Luo
Today, aviation has grown significantly in importance. However, the challenge of flight delays has become increasingly severe due to the need for safe separation between aircraft to mitigate wake turbulence effects. The primary emphasis of this investiga...
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Bocheng Zhao, Mingying Huo, Ze Yu, Naiming Qi and Jianfeng Wang
In this study, we propose an aerial rendezvous method to facilitate the recovery of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using carrier aircrafts, which is an important capability for the future use of UAVs. The main contribution of this study is the developme...
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Jason Cornelius, Sven Schmitz, Jose Palacios, Bernadine Juliano and Richard Heisler
This work details the development and validation of a methodology for high-resolution rotor models used in hybrid Blade Element Momentum Theory Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier?Stokes (BEMT-URANS) CFD. The methodology is shown to accurately predict sing...
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Lidong Zhang, Zhengcong Feng, Yuze Zhao, Xiandong Xu, Jiangzhe Feng, Huaihui Ren, Bo Zhang and Wenxin Tian
During the expansion of a wind farm, the strategic placement of wind turbines can significantly improve wind energy utilization. This study investigates the evolution of wake turbulence in a wind farm after introducing smaller wind turbines within the ga...
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Muyu Zhao, Ying Chen and Jin Jiang
The study of hydrodynamic characteristics of floating double-rotor horizontal axis tidal current turbines (FDHATTs) is of great significance for the development of tidal current energy. In this paper, the effect of roll motion on a FDHATT is investigated...
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Tengyuan Wang, Shuni Zhou, Chang Cai, Xinbao Wang, Zekun Wang, Yuning Zhang, Kezhong Shi, Xiaohui Zhong and Qingan Li
In modern large-scale wind farms, power loss caused by the wake effect is more than 30%, and active yaw control can greatly reduce the influence of the wake effect by deflecting the wind turbine?s wake. The yawed wind turbine?s wake characteristics are c...
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Ran Li, Jie Gong, Wei Chen, Jie Li, Wei Chai, Chang-kyu Rheem and Xiaobin Li
Numerical simulations are carried out to investigate the vortex-induced vibrations of a two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) near-wall rotating cylinder. Considering the effects of gap ratio, reduced velocity and rotational rate, the amplitude response, wake var...
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Hongwu Zhao and Yeon-Won Lee
Cylindrical structures are widely used in offshore and marine engineering, but they may suffer from vortex-induced vibration under the influence of ocean or wave currents, which can lead to severe fatigue damage. In this study, we applied the open-source...
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Yi Wang, Bin Guo, Fengmei Jing and Yunlei Mei
In order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the influence of winglets on the hydrodynamic performance and flow field characteristics of tidal current energy turbines, two different shapes of winglets are designed, and numerical simulation resu...
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Stefano Gaggero and Marco Ferrando
Tip loading is a common strategy to increase the propulsive efficiency of propellers. Solutions such as contracted and tip-loaded (CLT) and ?New generation? CLT propellers exploit the presence of an endplate (?true? or as the result of a dedicated modifi...
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